Business Intelligence Certifications

The Informatica Certified Professional Program

In today's competitive IT environment, you need to differentiate yourself. You need to prove that you have the knowledge and skills required to meet today's complex data integration challenges. You need to establish your professional credibility with your employer and within the greater IT industry.

Informatica Certification provides you with new opportunities to help improve your productivity, enhance your marketability, and increase your career success—regardless of your job title.

Certification Tracks

Developed with the utmost transparency and consistency in mind, the Informatica® Certified Professional Program is designed to measure and validate your Informatica implementation skills against established criteria. There are two levels of certification:

Informatica Certified Specialist

Informatica Certified Expert

Certification is based on confirmed product knowledge and field experience. Informatica product competencies are assessed by job role:

Certifications

The Informatica Certified Specialist level exams measure your competency as a full member of an Informatica project implementation team. You must pass a proctored, written exam to become an Informatica Certified Specialist.

These rigorous exams focus on not only your Informatica skills and capabilities, but also on your performance and the outcomes of your Informatica product implementations. They have been developed by recognized subject matter experts to measure competencies in tasks by role and to provide clear expectations of requirements and key factors for success. Exams deliver a consistent measurement and validation of the skills needed to ensure a successful implementation and maximum return on your Informatica technology investment.

"Certification is a key component to improving customer and partner satisfaction. Customers' expectation from their service providers has shifted…the top three expectations are peace-of-mind deployments, capabilities, integrated solutions. Certification improves not only market differentiation but profitability as well."
Constellation Research, April 2012

Program information, frequently asked questions, scheduled availability for new exams, and exam overviews, known as Skill Set Inventories, can be found under "Certification Guides" on the Informatica University Communities page.